Harrow



(No Model.)

J. A. MOORE.

HARROW.

Patented 0013.16, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo JAMES A. MOORE, OF HAMILTON, ASSIGNOR TO MARK O. MOORE, OF BUNKER HILL, OHlO.

HARROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,380, dated October 16l 1888.

Application filed January 3, 1388. Serial No. 259,622. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. MOORE, of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Harrows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to folding harrows, and relates to the arrangement of runners whereby two runners are brought into operative position by manipulating a single folding section.

My improvements will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan of a harrow illustrating my improvements, the barrow appearing as open tor use, Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of the saine, the runner-section appearing as folded upon the top of the non-folding section, and Fig. 4 a perspective view exemplifying the latchment for supportingl the non-folding section. Figs. 3 and et are upon an enlarged scale.

In the drawings, A indicates the non-folding section of the barrow, the same'being formed of toothed timbers and cross-ties, as usual, B, the folding section, similar in gen eral construction to the section A; C, hinges uniting tne sections A and B, so as to permit the section B to be folded over flat on top of the section A when the harrow is to be transported from the field; D, the outer timber of the folding section B; E, the inner timber of the saine section, F, a runner rigidly secured to and project-ing upwardly from the outer timber of Ithe folding section B; G, a similar runner similarly secured to the inner timber, E; H, latchment parts secured, respectively, to the non-folding section and to the folding section B, and adapted, when the folding section is folded over dat upon the top of the nonfolding section, to prevent the separation of the sections; and J, a second folding section hinged to the non-folding section in a similar' manner to the folding section B, and adapted, after the section B is folded over upon the top of the non-folding section, to be folded over fiat upon the top of the section B.

If the folding section B be folded over flat upon the top of the non-folding section A, the u runners F and G will clear the timbersof the non-folding section, and will pass onward down to the ground and rest upon the ground with the teeth of the folding section projecting upwardly, as indicated in Fig. 3. The non-folding section may now be lifted until it lies closely against the section B, when the latchments will engage and the non-folding section be free of the ground., so as to permit the barrow, if of two sections only, to be freely transported from eld to ield, &c. The second folding section, J, if employed, is to be folded over the folding section B.

In Fig. 8 the parts are shown as they would appear after the folding section B has been folded upon the non folding section and latched, and just before the second folding section, J, is folded over.

Then desired for use in the field, the second folding section, J, if present, is first unfolded and takes the position indicated in Fig. 3. The latchments are then disengaged, which permits the dropping of the non-folding section, after which the folding section B is unfolded into the position shown in Fig. l. The harrow is to be hitched to in any of the usual applicable manners.

I claim as my invention- 1n a barrow, the combination, with a noufolding section and a folding section hinged togetherso that the folding section may be folded over down flat upon the top of the non-folding section, of a runner secu red to and rigidly projecting upwardly from the top of the free edge of the folding section, a second runner similarly secured to and rigidly projecting upwardly from the inner edge ofthe folding section, and alatchmeut adapted to hold the two sections together when folded, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES A. MOORE.

Witnesses:

W. A. SEWARD, BURTON HULINGS. 

